Said Quotes

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.

If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.

What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.

When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'

I finally said, I can't live being carried by this wake.

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

Promise is most given when the least is said.

With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we'll never see each other!

Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.

On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.

I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.

That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.

I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'

I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue.